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| Hiking Microhonda |
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| View from top of Microhonda |
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| Mexican Traditional Rasca Bread |
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| Cutting the Rasca Bread |
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| I got the piece with the baby Jesus. Yay for Mexican traditions! |
Wowie wow wow!
It sounds like the family had a
pretty cool week with the padres cruising in the Caribbean and Brad turning 22!
My week has been pretty kick bum as well! :)
Today has been a pretty kick bum
P-day. This morning Hna´s Pelico, Lopez, Judd and I hiked this huge mountain
called ¨Microhonda¨, which means Microwave oven so who knows what´s up with
that. Anywho, the hike was really beautiful and we got to see the ocean and all
of Guaymas and San Carlos. Later we went to the chapel with the entire zone and
we got zone shirts (I´ll send pics later) and we played soccer. (BTW hike +
soccer = sore Hna Hauck). Then Pelico and I went to the centro (town square)
and ate churros and I bought these awesome purple shoes that were only 29 pesos,
which is less than $2 in US.
We had a zone conference this week
that was so cool! We had many changes made to our teaching approach and our
studying tactics. Our teaching is to be more simple and direct and we are
trying to focus on what the prophets of the Book of Mormon teach--come unto
Christ by receiving a remission of your sins through faith on His name,
repentance and baptism. Our studying time is half our Book of Mormon then a
half hour of other canonized books or the missionary library. We then study
Preach my Gospel with comps. We also have goals to read each of these books a
certain number of times. The goal is to read the BoM 4 times. I was in the
first chapter of Alma the day of the conference (Tuesday) the first time
reading it in my mission and I already have 6 months so I´ve kicked it into
gear and made it a goal to finish it by the end of this transfer (Sunday).
I’ve been reading a ton
obviously. I didn´t want to give up being able to understand what I´m reading
but I needed to read fast, so I moved to English scriptures alone just to
finish it and every time I open study with prayer I pray to be able to
understand what I´m reading. I have seen so many blessings doing this. This
week I have felt more understanding and love for these scriptures than I ever
have in my life! I can feel that mighty change of heart that it mentions in
Alma. It’s a crazy miracle that we have these scriptures because I can feel
them changing me just by reading them. I hope you all are keeping up on your scripture
study because it is SO IMPORTANT!!
I can also tell you that the changes
made to our teaching were very inspired. We´ve been a bit more straightforward
in all of our lessons, which has helped sort out those that, or part of the
¨white and ready to harvest¨ group and those that just aren´t quite prepared to
receive the Gospel in their lives. Lots of people here agree with EVERYTHING we
say and then at the end of a lesson they say something like
¨How nice it is that your
church and the Catholic Church have the same beliefs¨
Us: (sigh) ¨lets go over the Great
Apostasy again.¨
With the new approach we’ve been able
to be a little clearer and more distinct.
We´ve had to drop a couple of our
investigators (Paty being one of them) but we´ve had some progress with others
such as Raul who is moving right on forward to his baptismal date for the 30th
of this month.
Transfers are coming this next P-day
and who knows what´ll happen. I think I´ll be staying in Guaymas but I thought
I´d be staying in Nogales too. And I think Hna Pelico will be leaving to train.
We´ll see what happens.
Thanks for all of the love and
support that I have from you, you crazies! I really am so amazed and grateful
that I have you because a family as wonderful as ours is not a blessing that
many have. But that´s why I´m here! To help others have what our family has!!
The true Gospel of Jesus Christ and all of the blessings that therein are! Yay
for missionary work!!
Con amor,
Hermana Hauck
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